- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A connection in which two pieces of pipe are held together by mechanical means, bolts, or similar fasteners.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the capacity of a well to produce oil or gas. When a well is completed, its productive capacity is determined by an official test. The capacity as shown by this test is known as the well's potential. The allowable rate of production assigned to the well is based in whole or in part on its potential.
Industry:Energy
A special permit (which supplements the franchise), commonly issued by a state commission, which authorizes a utility to engage in business, construct facilities, or perform some other service. Also, a permit issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to engage in the transportation or sale for resale of natural gas in interstate commerce or to construct or acquire and operate any facilities necessary therefore, to which certificate the Commission may attach such reasonable terms and conditions as the public convenience and necessity may require.
Industry:Energy
An instrument which measures volume by means of rotating impellers, matching gears, or sliding vanes.
Industry:Energy
Generally, to seal and lock a gas meter and shut off the stop (valve) so that gas cannot be used. Compare TURN-OFF.
Industry:Energy
Rating systems which provide investors with a simple series of gradations by which the relative investment qualities or risks of bonds are indicated. Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Corporation are two principal bond rating agencies.
Industry:Energy
The fitting that connects to the inlet and the outlet of a small gas meter.
Industry:Energy
The science and study of the relationships between heat and mechanical work. First Law: Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but has a mass equivalent. Second Law: Heat cannot pass from a colder to a warmer body without the expenditure of energy; all systems tend to equilibrium. Third Law: At absolute zero, the entropy of a pure substance can be taken to be zero.
Industry:Energy
A connection made by the joining of metal parts in the plastic or molten state.
Industry:Energy
